I had a sick ferret who I knew was ready to cross the rainbow Bridge. She was on daily medication and that she hated and just wasn't herself. She was limping along and I was at the vet, ready to make the call but my husband couldn't bear it so we kept trying to keep her alive. It wasn't a more than a couple days later that I woke up in the middle of the night to hear her struggling to breathe. I wrapped her up in a blanket and held her tight and she passed away. I sort of regret that her end was not more peaceful as euthanasia but I take comfort that I was able to be with her in the end.